Italian Fever

A Novel

Valerie Martin

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Random House USA Paperbacks
02 June 2000

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

Part romance, part gothic suspense story, this is thecompelling tale of an American woman's awakening as she tumbles headlong into a mystery, art, and eros-from thebestselling, award-winning author of Property.. ""Spellbinding ... A virtuoso ... Martin's competence has kindled into brilliance.""-The New York Times Book Review

Lucy leads a quiet, solitary life working for a best-selling (but remarkably untalented) writer. When he dies at his villa in Tuscany, Lucy flies to Tuscany to settle his affairs. What begins as a grim chore soon threatens Stark's Emersonian self-reliance--and her very sense of what is real. The villa harbors secrets- a missing manuscript, neighbors whose Byzantine arrogance veils their dark past, a phantom whose nocturnal visits tear a gaping hole in Lucy's well-honed skepticism. And to complicate matters- Massimo, a married man whose tender attentions render Lucy breathless.

Smart, sophisticated, achingly beautiful, Italian Fever is one of the most original and compelling novels of the year.

By: Valerie Martin
Imprint: Random House USA Paperbacks
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Vintage Contemporaries ed
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780375705229
ISBN 10: 0375705228
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 June 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

VALERIE MARTIN is the author of eleven novels, four collections of short fiction, and a biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, titled Salvation. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Kafka Prize (for Mary Reilly) and Britain's Orange Prize (for Property).

Reviews for Italian Fever: A Novel

Spellbinding. . . . A virtuoso. . . . Martin's competence has kindled into brilliance. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> Entertainment apart . . . Martin has written a novel of ideas. -- The New York Times <br> Acutely observed. . .charmingly old-fashioned. -- Los Angeles Times <br> Filled with suspense and surprise in the telling. -- The Boston Globe